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Bug 823738

Summary: RFE: add ability to rebuild initramfs to plugin injection tool
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Mike Burns <mburns>
Component: ovirt-nodeAssignee: Joey Boggs <jboggs>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: urgent    
Version: 6.4CC: acathrow, achan, bsarathy, gouyang, jboggs, leiwang, mburns, moli, ovirt-maint, ycui
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: FutureFeature
Target Release: ---   
Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version: ovirt-node-2.5.0-3.el6 Doc Type: Enhancement
Doc Text:
During the plugin injection process, modules or changes in the boot kernel maybe required for a successful boot. This enhancement will add the ability to regenerate initramfs to the plugin injection tool when changes are being made to the image.
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Last Closed: 2013-02-28 16:31:29 UTC Type: Bug
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oVirt Team: --- RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On:    
Bug Blocks: 816255, 823651, 839774    

Description Mike Burns 2012-05-22 03:05:45 UTC
Description of problem:
Add ability to regenerate initramfs to plugin injection tool

Rationale:

During plugin injection process, a change may be made that must go into the boot kernel.  For example a new storage driver might be installed which is required for successful boot.

Feature details:

Injection tool should either take a flag or always rebuild the initramfs when changes are being made to the image

Comment 1 RHEL Program Management 2012-07-10 08:22:25 UTC
This request was not resolved in time for the current release.
Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to
propose this request, if still desired, for consideration in
the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2012-07-11 01:49:12 UTC
This request was erroneously removed from consideration in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4, which is currently under development.  This request will be evaluated for inclusion in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4.

Comment 3 Joey Boggs 2012-08-06 14:16:44 UTC
http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/6877/

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2013-02-28 16:31:29 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2013-0556.html